Schools
99 open schools are in scope, including 62 primary and 14 secondary schools. Walkley Primary School is the nearest published school at 792 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S6 2FF
Hillsborough · Sheffield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hillsborough
- Local authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S6 2FF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S6
- Postcode sector
- S6 2
- Latitude
- 53.400341
- Longitude
- -1.487100
- British National Grid easting
- 434,200
- British National Grid northing
- 389,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- Sheffield · E08000039
- Electoral ward
- Hillsborough · E05010872
- Parish or community
- E43000173
- Westminster constituency
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough · E14001466
- Output area
- E00041332
- Lower layer super output area
- Sheffield 026E · E01008161
- Middle layer super output area
- Sheffield 026 · E02001636
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore S6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 99
- Primary
- 62
- Secondary
- 14
- 792 m
Walkley Primary School
Community school
- 830 m
Sacred Heart School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,941
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,379
- Anti social behaviour 591
- Criminal damage and arson 402
- Public order 325
- Vehicle crime 246
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S6 2 residents
- 7,147
Age bands in S6 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
849 residents
630 residents
2,475 residents
1,627 residents
1,223 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
43
within 5 km straight-line
HAROLD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HAROLD STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3QW
ODS code C88059
884 m
TRAMWAYS MEDICAL CENTRE
54 HOLME LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4JQ
ODS code C88018
1.0 km
UPPERTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE
30 ADDY STREET, UPPERTHORPE, SHEFFIELD, S6 3FT
ODS code C88031
1.2 km
WALKLEY HOUSE & STANNINGTON M.C
23 GREENHOW STREET, SHEFFIELD, S6 3TN
ODS code C88005
1.4 km
DYKES HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
156 DYKES HALL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 4GQ
ODS code C88045
1.4 km
FORGE HEALTH GROUP
PITSMOOR SURGERY, 151 BURNGREAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S3 9DL
ODS code C88008
1.5 km
FAR LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FAR LANE, SHEFFIELD, S6 4FA
ODS code C88021
1.7 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
360 HERRIES ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7HD
ODS code C88014
1.8 km
THE BURNGREAVE SURGERY
SPITAL STREET HEALTH CENTRE, SPITAL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 9LB
ODS code C88048
2.1 km
CROOKES PRACTICE
203 SCHOOL ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S10 1GN
ODS code C88079
2.1 km
SOUTHEY GREEN MEDICAL CTR
281 SOUTHEY GREEN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 7QB
ODS code C88086
2.2 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE HEALTH CENTRE
UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICE, 53 GELL STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7QP
ODS code C88627
2.2 km
GREEN CROSS GROUP PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CARE SURGERY, 63 PALGRAVE ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8GS
ODS code C88077
2.4 km
DEVONSHIRE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
126 DEVONSHIRE STREET, SHEFFIELD, S3 7SF
ODS code C88076
2.4 km
CLOVER CITY PRACTICE
1 MULBERRY STREET, SHEFFIELD, S1 2PJ
ODS code Y05349
2.5 km
BUCHANAN ROAD SURGERY
72 BUCHANAN ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S5 8AL
ODS code C88011
2.7 km
BROOMHILL SURGERY
5 LAWSON ROAD, BROOMHILL, SHEFFIELD, S10 5BU
ODS code C88028
2.8 km
PAGE HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
101 OWLER LANE, SHEFFIELD, S4 8GB
ODS code C88051
2.8 km
TRAMWAYS AND MIDDLEWOOD MEDICAL CENTRES
FAIRLAWNS, 621 MIDDLEWOOD ROAD, SHEFFIELD, S6 1TT
ODS code C88043
2.8 km
ELM LANE SURGERY
104 ELM LANE, SHEFFIELD, S5 7TW
ODS code C88049
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 43 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Penistone Road/Hobson Avenue
BCT · Hillfoot
- 0.1 miles
Penistone Road/Burton Street
BCT · Hillfoot
- 0.2 miles
Langsett Road/Cuthbert Bank Road
BCT · Langsett Road
- 0.2 miles
Langsett Crescent/Normandale Road
BCT · Langsett Estate
- 0.3 miles
Penistone Road/Club Mill Road
BCT · Hillfoot
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sheffield 026E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,770 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,941 published events cover 12 months, averaging 328.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,379 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.